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This is really disgusting. Here is a regime that we support more than most, who's dollars are keeping our huge federal debt for collapsing, home of 15 out of the 19 9-11 hijackers, and perhaps most importantly, the wealth of the ruling regime filled the pockets of Osama bin Laden himself.
So what has outraged the Saudi's today?
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - He just wanted his colleagues in the government's legislative arm to discuss the possibility of conducting a study into the feasibility of reversing the ban on women drivers --
the only prohibition of its kind in the world.
But Consultative Council member Mohammad al-Zulfa's proposal has unleashed a storm in this conservative country where the subject of women drivers remains taboo.
Folks, I wish I were making this up. More disturbing "freedom loving" below.
Conservatives, who believe women should be shielded from strange men, say driving will allow a woman to leave home whenever she pleases and go wherever she wishes. Some say it will present her with opportunities to violate Islamic law, such as exposing her eyes while driving or interacting with strange men, like police officers or mechanics.
"Driving by women leads to evil," Munir al-Shahrani wrote in a letter to the editor of the Al-Watan daily. "Can you imagine what it will be like if her car broke down? She would have to seek help from men."
Um, Mr. al-Shahrani, women can fix cars too.
Enough snark. This is just plain despicable. I'm not going to tell any government what they can or can't do, but for my own government to support, protect, and prop up a regime so ass-backwards as this one is deplorable.
The world will never take the United States seriously while our President speaks of freedom, liberty and justice, while holding hands with the very regime that won't even let women drive.
Or am I just intolerant?
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